The dyeing of cotton fabrics : a practical handbook for the dyer and student (1901)
Beech, Franklin · London : Scott, Greenwood & Son ; New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 16
sted. Dead fibres are thin, brittle and weak. Composition of the Cotton Fibres. — Of all the vegetable textile fibres cotton is found to have the simplest chemical composition and to be, as it were, the type substance of all such fibres, the others differing from it in several respects. When… … Fig. 1. — Cotton Fibre. hydrogen and oxygen, in the proportions shown in the fol- lowing analysis : — Carbon, 44 '2 per cent., Hydrogen, 6"3 per cent.. Oxygen, 49*5 per cent., which corresponds to the empirical formula CgH^yOs, which shows it to belong to the group of carbo-hydrates, that is,…
Dyes and dyeing
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